Blame the company that bought them, kept them afloat for 2 decades. Cost EA just under $1 billion, and BioWare never capitalized and brought in the money. Baldur’s Gate 3 was the best selling game at 20 million copies.
At some point a company has to observe profit vs cost. It was costing EA too much money to keep BioWare employed.
People always act as if game developers should always keep their job despite not producing.
This situation sucks, not going to say it isn’t.
But why are game publishers always to blame for the fault of the studio?
Games cost a lot of money to make, companies are not in the habit of keeping studios around just to make games for mass to enjoy, they need to see a return in their investment.
Sadly, BioWare failed to provide the numbers needed.
Don’t bother posting that silly “leave billion dollar company alone” meme.
That does not apply to this situation.
Vielguard sold 1.5 million copies.
Andromeda sold roughly 3 million copies.
A company stays around by making hard decisions.
And the people who are crying that EA should be shut down makes no sense.
Why would you be upset over BioWare closing, yet, be okay with AEW closing which would leave even more unemployed?
BioWare is but one studio, and people act as if the studio should be kept around just to keep people employed, but then those same people want even more people to lose their job because they don’t like the company.
People get fired from jobs all the time for not producing results. game studios should not be immune for the same reason.
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u/EvilCatArt 8h ago
I fucking hate EA and this completely ensured I will never buy a thing from them again.